The Bombay high court on Friday reprimanded a petitioner for making the Prime Minister of India as a respondent in a PIL on the issue of circulation of large number of fake currency notes.
The court warned the petitioner that if he fails to convince the court that adding the PM in the petition was necessary, then the court would impose heavy cost on him.
Additional advocate general Anil Singh mentioned this matter before the division bench of Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice Revati Mohite-Dere and said that even the finance ministry is a respondent in the petition and there was no need to add PM as a respondent.
“What does the Prime Minister of this country have to do with the issue of fake currency notes .. Such type of frivolous PILs cannot be entertained. You deposit '10 lakh first to prove your bona fide; then we will hear your petition,” the court told the petitioner’s lawyer.
The petitioner’s lawyer told the court that since the PM is head of the Cabinet and the finance ministry is under him, he had been added as a respondent. When the petitioner’s advocate expressed inability to deposit '10 lakh to prove bona fide, the court said, “We will hear the petition on Tuesday. If we do not find any merit in the petition, then we will impose a heavy cost on the petitioner.”
